Job Access

Peer regions were chosen for their comparable size and composition. These same regions have been used for comparison in multiple other studies and reports.

Source: Owen, A and Murphy, B. 2017. Access Across America: Transit 2016. Center for Transportation Studies. University of Minnesota.
* Memphis excluded from comparisons due to lack of available GTFS data

Why It's Important

In 2017, the University of Minnesota studied the 49 of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the nation to measure the transit coverage of an average resident’s access to jobs in the area. These percentages represent the number of jobs that a typical worker residing in the city can reach within 60 minutes of travel, between 7:00 and 9:00 AM, by transit and walking.